NSW · Illawarra Shoalhaven · Suburban
Shellharbour City Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Shellharbour City Council through to what gets built.
Shellharbour City Council determines a development application in a median of 34 days — 22 days faster than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 658 determined development applications, last 12 months · 7,397 applications on record · 37 planning proposals · 83,228 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 27,543 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
1,941 homes have been determined here
Counted from the applications that state a number of new homes. Where an application does not state one, it is not read as a zero. A home decided twice at the same address is counted once.
NSW’s housing target
NSW asks Shellharbour City Council for 3,800 homes by June 2029.
That target counts homes finished; the homes determined here are counted from applications. A home can be approved and never built, and NSW measures the target against ABS completions data that Lodgd does not hold. The two are not a percentage of one another.
Approved is not built
Across NSW, only 57% of homes determined reach construction within two years.
Lodgd matches every application to the construction certificates that follow it, site by site, across all 128 councils — so the pipeline can be read as what is likely to exist rather than what was lodged.
Try the free demo →Measured over 193,554 homes determined between July 2021 and November 2024 — every decision old enough to have had two full years to start.
Of every hundred homes NSW determines, this many have a construction certificate — building work can legally begin — within two full years.
Latest activity
Straight from the NSW Planning Portal
- DA modification33 AMY PLACE CALDERWOOD 2527Lodged30 Oct 2026
- CDC43-57 SHELLHARBOUR ROAD WARILLA 2528Lodged30 Oct 2026
- CDCSHOP 1 76 ADDISON AVENUE LAKE ILLAWARRA 2528Lodged30 Oct 2026
- CDC32 ANTRIM AVENUE WARILLA 2528Lodged29 Oct 2026
- CDC1 HAMILTON ROAD ALBION PARK 2527Lodged29 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalShellharbour Tiny Homes Planning ProposalMade14 Sept 2026
- Planning proposalShellharbour Local Environmental Plan 2013 PP0001-2024 - 2926 Illawarra Highway TONGARRAMade11 Sept 2026
Elsewhere in NSW
Every council, the same way
How the system works. What happens to a DA · How long they take · Complying development vs a DA · All guides →
How we count. These figures count the homes stated on development applications and complying development certificates lodged with Shellharbour City Council, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.